He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen…

“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens to let…

— John Ciardi

“Unaware that he is only interested in the presumed parched pucker in her pants, she is more than happy to give him her phone…

— Curtis Ackie

“As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the mountain in…

— Curtis Ackie

“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in…

— Albert Camus

“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")”

— Francis M. Nevins

“So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?' 'He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a stone, but…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds…

— Albert Camus

“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.”

— Jason Daniel Chaplin

“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.”

— Brian Spellman

“Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists.…

— Albert Camus

“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect…

— Ashim Shanker

“To impoverish that reality whose inhumanity constitutes man’s majesty is tantamount to impoverishing him himself.”

— Albert Camus

“To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it.”

— Albert Camus

“A policewoman comes up and tells us to move along. “Nothing to see here,” she says. “Not even that stuff you’re looking at.”

— Lincoln Michel

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

— Ashim Shanker